Beata Hock

BEATA HOCK


EDUCATION Current: Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest
2002: M.A. in Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest
1992: M.A. in Aesthetics; Comparative Literature and Modern Linguistics, Eötvös Lóránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest

PROFESSIONAL  EXPERIENCE  and  EMPLOYMENT
freelance art critic, curator and researcher
Editor, Praesens Central European Contemporary Art Review (2003–2006)
Research Fellow, Artpool Contemporary Art Research Center, Budapest (1998–2002)
Lecturer on the subject „Action Art: Happenings and Performances in Hungary 1960s–1980s”, Attila József Free University, Budapest (Winter Semester 2000)

Curatorial projects:
Antal lakner: Bundesberg, Dorchester Art Festival (May 2007)
1/4 Hungarian, Insitute of Contemporary Art, Dunaujvaros (February–March 2007), with Franciska Zolyom
Róza El-Hassan’s retrospective exhibition, Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest (July–September 2006)
NE(A)T: Women on Women, Kogart House, Budapest; advisor (July–August 2005)
Zoltán Brezina: Brooklyni reggeli (Breakfast in Brooklyn), MiRo Photogallery, Budapest (September 1999)

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Academic interests: women’s art and socially/politically engaged art practices; the application of global perspectives for regional cultural history, with a focus on the state- and post-socialist condition; the development of a locally relevant and applicable methodology for the analysis of cultural products; the interrelation of social formations and artistic production

GRANTS and ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
Research semester at the Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin (June-September 2007)
CEU Advanced Doctoral Students Award (December 2006)
AICA travel grant for research trip (Poznan, Poland, March 2006)
Doctoral Research Support Grant: awarded by the Doctoral Committee of the Central European University, Budapest (October  2005–March 2006)
Ernő Kállai Grant for Young Art Historians and Critics: awarded by the Advisory Office for Fine Arts, Hungary (1999–2001) (research project: the history and documentation of Hungarian Performance Art, Happenings, Action Art and Fluxevents)

PUBLICATIONS (selected)
„The More it Changes, the More it Retains Itself” [an essay for the catalogue of Róza El-Hassan’s retrospective exhibition, July–October 2006, Műcsarnok–Kunsthalle, Budapest]. Budapest: Műcsarnok.
„Makacs és zavarbaejtő történelmi újrakezdés”: a Psyché és a Tizenhét hattyúk (újabb) lehetséges feminista olvasatai [‘A Stubborn and Confounding Revisiting of History’: Further Feminist Readings of Psyché and Seventeen Swans]. Világosság 2006/4. 11–18.
Nemtan és pablikart: Lehetséges értelmezési szempontok az utóbbi másfél évtized két művészeti irányzatához [Women’s Art and Public Art: Interpretive Aspects for Art Practices Emerging in the Hungarian Scene in the Past 15 Years] Budapest: Praesens Books, 2005
„The Utopia Exists: Introducing Praesens Central European Art Review.” In Proceedings of the international symposium 90’s+ / Reflection on the Visual Art at the Turn of the 20th and 21st Century. Bratislava: Slovak Section of AICA, 2003. 84-92.
’performance’- entry in Kortárs Magyar Művészeti Lexikon [Companion to Contemporary Hungarian Art], co-authored with Zoltán Sebők, Annamária Szőke. Budapest: Enciklopédia Kiadó, 2001. 125-128.
„Time Patrol, the Populist Listener.” In Moscow Square – Gravitation. Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003, catalogue.
„Vector Art”. Commentary on Orshi Drozdik’s retrospective exhibition and the ensuing international symposium, Anatomies of the Mind, the Body and the Soul.Praesens, 2002/1.
Mária Bolla – Beata Hock – Zsuzsa Kalafatics (eds.): Imago – the photographic work of Miklós Klotz. Budapest, 1999

OTHER
Theory in Practice 3 – symposium atArt Workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia (September 2005)
The Performer and the Mediated Image – course attended at. Amsterdam/Maastricht Summer University & Netherlands Media Art Institute/Montevideo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (August 2001)
Professional Standards in Curatorial Practice: Phases in Organizing Contemporary Art Exhibitions – international seminarorganised by theAssociation of Art Historians of Serbia,Belgrade, SCG (April 2001)

LANGUAGES English – proficiency
German, French – elementary
Hungarian – native

Documentation